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Academic Achievements
Published multiple papers, including Psycholinguistic Ranking of LLMs and TELeR Taxonomy for Prompting LLMs; Recipient of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Faculty Fellowship; Selected for the 2024 100+ Women Strong Leadership in Diversity Faculty/Staff Award at Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, AUBURN; Students Matthew Freestone and Matthew Williams received Honorable Mention in the 2023-2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (URA) from Computing Research Association (CRA).
Research Experience
Former Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University; Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the supervision of Prof. ChengXiang Zhai; Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Interned at Microsoft Research, Yahoo Research, and @WalmartLabs.
Background
Currently a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF), also affiliated with the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Learning Science Faculty Cluster. Primary research interest lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Founding director of the Bridge-AI Lab at UCF, working on democratizing AI beyond tech-savvy communities.